UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, Alaska--While researchers in Alaska this summer used high-tech submersibles and huge ships to plumb the deep-ocean depths in search of new species, a team of scuba diving scientists working from an Alaska fishing boat has discovered an entirely new marine habitat just a stone's throw from shore.... ...The discovery in June of a single bed of rhodoliths, colorful marine algae...UAF Institute of Arctic Biology researcher featured in Science
Daniel Mann, a researcher at UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology, was invited by the journal "Science" to comment on recent advances in the study of patterned ground, which includes geomorphic features like sorted circles, nets and polygons that develop in the soils of polar and alpine regions. Although associated with repeated freeze-thaw cycles, the origin of these widespread and often beautiful...UAF biologist tracking extinct bears published in Science
The evolution of brown bears may be better understood with help from the radiocarbon dating of bone specimens found in nearly pristine condition preserved in Alaskas permafrost. Ancient DNA studies conducted on these specimens are the subject of an article in the March 21 issue of the journal, "Science" titled, "Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears." The co-auth...UAF part of university without walls
When the University of the Arctic (UArctic) ... is launched tomorrow there will be no cornerstone to pour and no ribbons to ... cut across buildings because the UArctic is a "university without walls." ... A cooperative effort that was initiated nearly four years ago, the UArctic is ... an independent international network of universities, colleges, researchers ... and indigenous peoples i...Harbor Branch Oceanographic Trains Displaced Fishermen And Women In New Careers As Aquafarmers
.FT. PIERCE, FL - Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution has recently graduated.ninety-nine new hard clam farmers and helped them establish their own businesses.in Florida. All of the graduates were former net fishermen diplaced from their.livelihoods due to Florida's constitutional ban on inshore net fishing enacted.in July 1995. .The community-based retraining programs, developed and directe...